Wipro Tech joins STAR automotive standards body

BANGALORE: Wipro Technologies, the global IT services division of Wipro Limited has joined STAR, the IT standards body for the North American retail automotive industry. Wipro Technologies will be the first Indian services company to join STAR.

STAR (Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail) is a non-profit, automotive industry-wide initiative to create voluntary IT standards for the data elements and transmission format used by manufacturers, dealers, and retail system providers to communicate with each other.

Wipro has a dedicated automotive solutions practice spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific and has 'Automotive Centers of Excellence' at Windsor, Ontario and Bangalore.